atkelar | X-Box Repair @atkelar | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
I am NOT a gamer cat... not by a long shot. But I do like to have fun with some games now and then. Which means that the whole "gaming scene" has gotten way too competitive for my taste over the last decades. I like to sit down and enjoy a game for a bit of relaxation time. But everything that came out after 3D became a big thing is "faster and harder" to keep competetive folk engaged. I don't really like that.
I played quite a few games in good old DOS. Point and Click adventures are still my favorite: Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones, Sam 'n Max hit the road, Toonstruck... lovely memories! On the action side I only got into very few select games: Doom and Doom II (of course) and Unreal was pretty much all I could enjoy.
Puzzle games also got me involved: Tetris, Incredible Machine, Al and Sid's incredible toons and Pushover.
I wish I could say "to name a few", but that is literally all of it. I might have forgotten one or two games, but no other comes to mind that I really played through. At most I got a few levels in and that's that.
Now, this is also why I never got a console as a kid. But the company I work for had an X-Box showcase in the public break room and I got hooked on "Burnout"... so when the X-Box 360 came around, I snatched up a regular plain first gen X-Box that was on sale. And that's where this video starts...
0:00 Intro / Presentation / Desoldering Caps
2:30 Cleanup Vias / New Caps
4:33 Assembly
5:55 Failed Boot, DVD Issue
6:38 Unpacking, Mailbag: DVD Drive
7:50 Final Test / Assmebly
8:25 Games! / Thanks / Outtake
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
You can support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/atkelar
Wikipedia to the few games I have:
Burnout Revenge - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_Revenge
The Simpsons: Hit and Run - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Hit_%26_Run
Blinx 2 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinx_2:_Masters_of_Time_and_Space
Conker: live and reloaded - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker:_Live_%26_Reloaded
Thanks for providing the DVD drive goes to Windy - @Herrdeswindes on Twitter - also Stroopwafels are yummy!
Stroopwafel! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel
I am NOT a gamer cat... not by a long shot. But I do like to have fun with some games now and then. Which means that the whole "gaming scene" has gotten way too competitive for my taste over the last decades. I like to sit down and enjoy a game for a bit of relaxation time. But everything that came out after 3D became a big thing is "faster and harder" to keep competetive folk engaged. I don't really like that.
I played quite a few games in good old DOS. Point and Click adventures are still my favorite: Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones, Sam 'n Max hit the road, Toonstruck... lovely memories! On the action side I only got into very few select games: Doom and Doom II (of course) and Unreal was pretty much all I could enjoy.
Puzzle games also got me involved: Tetris, Incredible Machine, Al and Sid's incredible toons and Pushover.
I wish I could say "to name a few", but that is literally all of it. I might have forgotten one or two games, but no other comes to mind that I really played through. At most I got a few levels in and that's that.
Now, this is also why I never got a console as a kid. But the company I work for had an X-Box showcase in the public break room and I got hooked on "Burnout"... so when the X-Box 360 came around, I snatched up a regular plain first gen X-Box that was on sale. And that's where this video starts...
0:00 Intro / Presentation / Desoldering Caps
2:30 Cleanup Vias / New Caps
4:33 Assembly
5:55 Failed Boot, DVD Issue
6:38 Unpacking, Mailbag: DVD Drive
7:50 Final Test / Assmebly
8:25 Games! / Thanks / Outtake
Music:
My Train's A Comin'
Unicorn Heads
(YouTube Audio Library)
You can support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/atkelar
Wikipedia to the few games I have:
Burnout Revenge - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_Revenge
The Simpsons: Hit and Run - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons:_Hit_%26_Run
Blinx 2 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinx_2:_Masters_of_Time_and_Space
Conker: live and reloaded - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker:_Live_%26_Reloaded
Thanks for providing the DVD drive goes to Windy - @Herrdeswindes on Twitter - also Stroopwafels are yummy!
Stroopwafel! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel
